Jun 25, 2014

Enigma of the summer monsoons

After all, the American Southwest and Himalayan-hugging Indian peninsula have similarly distinct cycle of rainy summer and a dry winter spans.

Why then the humdrumly named “wet season” for south Florida while the other two other get provocatively dubbed as a “monsoon season” instead?

The summer wind on the Indian Peninsulablows doesn't shift day and night but ratherblows continually inland

Answer: A low-level sea breeze feeds our summer downpours. It switches back and forth on a diurnal basis from a low-lying inland-blowing seas breeze by day to a coastward-blowing land breeze by night. Once the upper atmospheric low sets in place over the Indian peninsula it rules the sky all summer long. Or in other words – both day and night ...

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